Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

BUSINESS FRANCHISE (“X” VIDEOS) ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE 1. THIS ACT MAY BE CITED AS THE BUSINESS FRANCHISE (“X” VIDEOS) ACT 1990.

   2.      (1) Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.  
   3.      The Tax Act is incorporated and is to be read as one with this Act.  

   PART II--LICENCES

   6.      A licence remains in force until the expiration of the last day of the month in which it was granted and may be renewed in accordance with section 9.  
   12.     Upon the expiration of a licence by cancellation or lapse of time, the former licensee shall not, without reasonable excuse, fail to return the licence to the Commissioner within 7 days of its expiration.  
   13.     In addition to any records kept pursuant to section 96 of the Tax Act, a licensee shall keep such records as are prescribed.  
   14.     Where there is a change in the occupancy of a position of director, secretary or officer of a body corporate which holds a licence, or a new appointment to such a position, the body shall not, without reasonable excuse, fail to give written notice of the change or appointment to the Commissioner within 7 days after the change or appointment.  
   15.     A wholesale licensee shall write or cause to be written on the invoice issued in relation to a video supplied in pursuance of the licence the words  
   16.     In this Division—“ ‘X' video”, in relation to—  
   17.     This Division applies in relation to—  
   18.     The basic fee for the grant or renewal of a licence is $50 for each premises in relation to which a licence is held or is to be held.  
   21.     No advance fee or franchise fee is payable in relation to the supply or offer for retail sale of an “X” video where either such fee is payable in relation to any previous supply, or any previous offer for retail sale, of that video.  

   PART III--ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW

   23.     Application may be made to the Australian Capital Territory Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of a decision referred to in subsection 21 (1).  

   PART IV--OFFENCES

   25.     A person shall not retail an “X” video except in accordance with a retail licence.  

   PART V--MISCELLANEOUS

   29.     Where a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this Act, other than an offence against section 14, the penalty that the Court may impose is a fine not exceeding 5 times the maximum amount that, but for this section, the Court could impose as a pecuniary penalty for that offence.  
   30.     The Executive may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters—